Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

From from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry : “Conduct disorder” refers to a group of repetitive and persistent behavioral and emotional problems in youngsters. They are often viewed by other children, adults and social agencies as “bad” or delinquent, rather than mentally ill.

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Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access).

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St. Mary’s University.

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Mad in America

MAY 20, 2025

But the focus on genetics doesnt tell the whole story. While there may be some genetic component, a growing body of research suggests that epigeneticsthe study of how experience can alter gene expressionmay provide an even more nuanced understanding of how traditions of distress are inherited. But not all traditions are benign.

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Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Family dynamics 80

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

A Brief Group Social-Belonging Intervention to Improve Mental-Health and Academic Outcomes in BIPOC and First-Generation-to-College Students Erin S. Understanding Ethnoracial Disparities and Advancing Mental Health Equity Through Clinical Psychological Science: Introduction to Special Issue P. Blanchard, Jason F.

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Genetics and mental health Resilience and coping Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 59

Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 2, 2025

Opioids are a class of drugs that interact with certain proteins in the brain called opioid receptors. When you consume an opioid drug, whether its a prescription painkiller or an illegal substance off the streets, the opioid enters the bloodstream and floods the brain with a sudden rush of dopamine. What is an Opioid Addiction ?

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Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D.

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